Monitoring data exchanges between information systems

Information systems tend to be more and more attached to one another and exchange increasingly more data amongst each other. As the number of data exchanges increases, it becomes more and more challenging to sustain an overview of how these data exchanges are performing. This is particularly an issue for application service providers which host systems for customers since they host multiple systems and each system could have multiple data exchanges. However, there are monitoring tools available which monitor the states of systems, there aren’t any tools available to monitor the functional aspects of data exchanges. For that reason lack of oversight on the functional performance of data exchanges, problems can be unnoticed and customers may become disappointed. The goal of this research is to create a reference architecture for systems which may provide central monitoring of data exchanges with the possibility of aggregating information on different data exchanges into useful diagnostic reports. The scope of this analysis is centered on monitoring only at the target system of a data exchange…